MSI K8N Neo 2 and Audig

My self and lots of others at the msi forum are having random reboot problems with the above Kit. I have exausted there ideas and MSI tech say its a driver conflict with the Nvidia Nforce drivers and Soundblaster drivers. Creative tech have not bothered to answer any of my support requests.
I have had 5 of there sound cards in the past and feel a bit ........ that they can't be bothered to help there customers. My Audigy 2 card has worked fine in 3 other motherboards and still works in my sons PC.
If I were the only person with this problem I could maybe understand but creative are loosing a lot of good will.

Hi
'My Audigy 2 card has worked fine in 3 other motherboards and still works in my sons PC.'
I don't know which one is the egg and which one is the chicken in this case, but
you have contacted MSI support?
What was their answer/opinion for this matter?
Are they willing / did they promise
- to make some changes into their hardware (K8N NEO 2)
- to make some BIOS upgrades
- anything
to get better support for Creative (Audigy 2) products?
This all because what i've read, MSI boards have not been the easieset ones to get working properly.
.jtp

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